(Courtesy Yang Guoxiang)A&S Interview: Yang Guoxiang -- Air And Space Smithsonian
One of China's top test pilots recalls the H-Bomb that almost backfired.
When your assignment is to drop a live nuclear bomb, you’d better not return to base with it. But that’s just what happened in 1971 to Yang Guoxiang, a pilot with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, who told his harrowing tale to Bob Bergin, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who writes about the aviation history of Southeast Asia and China. Bergin interviewed Yang in Kunming, China, in early 2009, with the assistance of interpreter Zhao Gang, an instructor at Yunnan University.
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My Comment: I am sure that the guys on the ground were not amused.